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allow for



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Idioms and Phrases

Leave room for, permit, as in We have enough chairs to allow for forty extra guests , or Our denomination allows for a large variety of beliefs . [Early 1700s] Also see make allowance .
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Hebbian-style synaptic plasticity allows for creation of memories and learning from experience within a network of neurons and synapses.

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The law allows for them to be used for Westminster, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Senedd and in most local government elections, where the conditions are satisfied.

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But the National Education Union says the current system "does not allow for enough time for important matters to be sufficiently discussed and addressed, such as knife crime prevention".

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Mumsnet's call for reform would have allowed for spaces to be reserved for biological women.

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Portraiture is instead all about recording a surface — as fully, robustly and truthfully as possible — which, if successful, will allow for the unencumbered experience of the sheet of marked paper set before a viewer’s eyes.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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